Barbara Gayle, Justice Coordinator

Senior Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Caroline Hay has resigned.

Hay will be heading to a local private firm.

She told The Gleaner that her resignation will take effect on January 31 next year, however she will go on leave at the end of December this year.

Hay joined the staff of the DPP as a Crown Counsel in 2003 and in 2010 rose to the rank of senior deputy DPP.

As a senior deputy DPP, she has prosecuted several high-profile cases including the murder of Ambassador Peter King.

Hay graduated from law school in 1994 and worked for one year at Myers, Fletcher and Gordon before she went into private practice.

In 2001 she entered the Government service as a legal officer of the Financial Crimes Unit now Financial Investigation Division.

She is the second senior deputy DPP to resign in less than a year.

Last year, Diahann Gordon Harrison resigned to take up post as Children’s Advocate.

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